The Bones Speak

FAIN: TD-234884-16

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY 11201-8301)
David Scott Pultz (Project Director: July 2015 to May 2017)

Development of a 55-minute documentary about the role of New York City’s Spring Street Church in the abolitionist movement and about the lives of its congregants.

The Bones Speak is a 55-minute documentary about the archaeological discovery of early 19th-century burial vaults of a former New York City abolitionist and integrated church, and the human remains found there that have undergone DNA and isotope analysis by bioarcheologists.